Category Archives: Canadian Press
Investigation: Drug enhanced Wiggins performance in Tour win
LONDON - Bradley Wiggins used a banned powerful corticosteroid to enhance his performance while preparing to win the Tour de France in 2012, a British parliamentary committee said in a doping investig...
Mar 4, 2018
1906 film of San Francisco after quake found at flea market
SAN FRANCISCO - More than a century after San Francisco’s deadly 1906 earthquake, a film reel with nine minutes of footage capturing the city two weeks after the devastation surfaced at a flea m...
Mar 4, 2018
Mushers hit the snowy trail as Iditarod kicks off in Alaska
WILLOW, Alaska - Competitors took to the snowy trail as the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race kicked off Sunday in Alaska following a trying year for the annual event. Musher Cody Strathe of Fairbanks and ...
Mar 4, 2018
Wildlife officers in Alberta looking for person who left cougar carcass behind
COCHRANE, Alta. - Wildlife officers in Alberta are investigating tips they’ve received after posting a photograph of a cougar carcass they say was illegally killed and abandoned in an area west ...
Mar 4, 2018
Canadian who admitted to plotting terrorist attacks asks for 'second chance'
A Canadian who admitted to plotting a terrorist attack on New York City is pleading for “a second chance” in a letter submitted to the court ahead of his upcoming sentencing. In the letter...
Mar 4, 2018
Roger Bannister, who broke the 4-minute mile, dies at 88
LONDON - Roger Bannister, who as a lanky medical student at Oxford in 1954 electrified the sports world and lifted postwar England’s spirits when he became the first athlete to run a mile in und...
Mar 4, 2018
Canada loses to France in Challenge Trophy final at Las Vegas Sevens
LAS VEGAS - Tevaughn Campbell scored back-to-back tries as Canada mounted a late rally but came up short in a 26-19 loss on Sunday in the Challenge Trophy final at the HSBC Las Vegas Sevens Series. Ca...
Mar 4, 2018
'Black Panther' is box-office king for third straight week
LOS ANGELES - Wakanda’s reign over America shows no signs of waning. “Black Panther” is king of the U.S. box office for the third straight weekend. Studio estimates Sunday say the Ma...
Mar 4, 2018
Alberta rolls Northwest Territories for 9-2 win in eight ends in Draw 4 of Brier
REGINA - A warm Brandt Centre is keeping the skips at the Tim Hortons Brier guessing. Saskatchewan’s Steve Laycock finally got a win for his hometown crowd with a 9-4 eight-end decision over New...
Mar 4, 2018
Chelsea, Arsenal set to miss out in EPL's top-4 race
MANCHESTER, England - It is looking increasingly likely that Chelsea and Arsenal will be the teams from the Premier League’s “Big Six” to miss out on Champions League qualification t...
Mar 4, 2018